Nightingale announces new Melbourne project

Nightingale announces new Melbourne project

Breathe Architecture?s Jeremy McLeod is not afraid of breaking the mould. The creation of the Nightingale Model upended the status quo of multi-residential design, development and living in Australia. The model draws on the tenets of affordability, transparency, sustainability, deliberative design and community contribution. In recent years, the Nightingale Model has gone from strength to strength and there are currently no fewer than 12 projects in active development.
Rather than sit on their laurels, Nightingale have announced their next project, the Nightingale Village. A collaboration between seven leading architects, this development includes seven buildings on Duckett Street in Brunswick. We had a chat to Jeremy about the Nightingale Village vision and housing futures in Melbourne.
What inspired you to create the Nightingale Village"
It started with The Commons. It?s a great catalyst for community, but it stands alone. Then across the road we start Nightingale 1, and before Nightingale 1 is even finished the community is formed in there.
When you put those two buildings together on opposite sides of the street, they start to build a precinct. It starts to benefit not just those residents, but the broader community. When we started to see that happen, we understood that the answer to housing futures in our city is not building by building ? it?s actually at a precinct scale [or] at a village scale.
For us, it seemed to make total sense that we would look for something at a precinct scale where we could not just build rooftop gardens for the communities of each building but where we can build gardens at the street level that the broader community can use as well.
Nightingale Village seeks to create smart, deliberate and liveable density. How will it achieve that"
Firstly, it?s led by some of Australia?s leading architects. Although the architects are leading it, they take feedback and alter their designs to suit the resident groups. It?s a different proposition than providing products that a marketing team tells you will sell for the highest dollar.
From a sustainability point of view, all our buildings are minimum seven and a half stars. All of our buildings are fossil-fuel free, there?s no gas piped into any of these buildings. They?re all hooked up through an embedded network that buys 100 per cent green power. They?re all augmented by solar, and that solar benefit is shared by all the residents. In Paris, you can either put a green roof on your building or you can put solar panels on your building. We?re still yet to mandate anything like that in Melbourne so ? we?ll do it in Nightingale Village.
Around here, ? the buildings occupy 100 per cent of the site and they?re extruding straight up. In Nightingale Village, we?re working with Mark Jacques from Openwork to come up with a precinct-wide landscape plan which basically means we?re not building on 100 per cent of our sites. We?re giving some of our grounds back to the broader...

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